Affidavit Says Teenager Sent to Boot Camp Died in Bathtub

APB News/July 19, 2001

Phoenix -- A 14-year-old boy who was sent to a boot camp for troubled
youths
drowned in a motel bathtub, vomiting mud, after he was made to stand in
the
sun because he said he wanted to go home, according to a court record
released Wednesday.

Authorities are investigating the July 1 death of Anthony Haynes, who was
attending a boot camp run by the America's Buffalo Soldiers Re-enactors
Association.
The document released to The Associated Press was an affidavit the
sheriff's
office submitted for a search warrant of camp founder Charles Long II's
home
and property. Neither Long nor any others associated with the camp have
been
charged with any crime related to Anthony's death.

The results of an autopsy have not been released, but the affidavit cited
preliminary results showing Anthony died from drowning. He also was
dehydrated, the document said.

The Medical Examiner's Office would not comment on the information in the
affidavit because the case is pending, spokeswoman Gayle Millette said.
According to the affidavit, campers told investigators that supervisors
began beating them two days after the five-week camp started June 25. They
said they were whipped, kicked, stomped on and forced to put mud in their
mouths.

On July 1, campers were allowed to say they wanted to go home. Anthony and
others who said yes were made to stand in the sun as punishment for being
"quitters," the affidavit said. Temperatures reached 114 that day.

Anthony began hallucinating and refused to drink water, the document said.
When he became nonresponsive, camp supervisors took him to a motel and
left
him in the tub with the shower running.
They returned to find Anthony with his face in the water. The affidavit
said
supervisors called Long and were told to bring Anthony back to the camp
because Long thought the child was faking.

When he was returned to the camp, he wasn't breathing. Camp supervisors
then
called 911, but Anthony never regained consciousness and was pronounced
dead
later that night.

A man who answered the phone at Long's house referred calls to Long's
attorney, David Burnell Smith, who didn't immediately return a message
Wednesday afternoon.
When sheriff's detectives searched Long's home July 6, they seized more
than
100 videotapes and files of the association.

Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley didn't immediately return a message
Wednesday.
Anthony's father, Gettis L. Haynes Jr., said, "If the child was
disoriented
and unaware of what was going on around him, why did they take him and put
him in a bathtub and go off and leave him?"

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